A prognostication for this yere M.D.xlvi, written by the experte docter of Astronomie [and] Phisicke Achilles. P. Gasser. L. Dominators are Mars [and] Luna

¶ Of pestilences and imi∣nent sicknesses.

THE assendent in the fygure of the reuolution, & Mars lord of the yeare, threaten euil the health of men, speciallye the quadrangale of the bulle, & also the croked aspect of Saturne to the Moone a lytle after the coniunction of the Lightes the Moone goyng before, threaten pesti∣lence, but yet neither vniuersall nor great. But surely the .vi. house shall geue many diseases, whote & sharpe to the which, aswell the lorde of the yere, as the clyppyng or ioyning to∣gether of the vnfortunate Planetes shall puruay sodayne and vnloked for death of men in strōg & lusty age.

¶ The diseases of Mars shall in∣crease or be of most strength and po∣wer. In the spryng tyme, as are pe∣stilence, feuers or agues, continuall tertians, CAVSON or most whot burnyng ague bredde of pure coller in veynes nighe vnto the heart, and differeth from a tertian, that is al∣so

engendred in the veynes, but yet far from the hearte, VARIOLAE whiche is a disease that chyldren & young men haue often, but olde men very seldome. Erisipilas whiche is also called IGNISSACER the holy fier, of some S. Antonies fyer, and as Galyn saith, it is a swelling that commeth of a whote and thyn blood, and is sumtyme myxed wyth coler, brustyng out of blod. The iaū∣dish, whot impostemes, madnes, sca∣bines of the preuities, and reines, w^t the griefes and paynes of the eyes.

¶ In Somer season partly who∣ter diseases of the hedde, and pesti∣lence, hedde aches, partly paynes of the shinnes with Saturnyn, or dise∣ses of Saturne, as the leprosy, EC∣TICA or consumption, MELAN∣CHOLIA or madnes. THE∣NESMVS which is a continuall desyre too exonerate or too ease the wombe that maye neither be defer∣red nor escaped: and whē any thyng is voided it shalbe very litle and that most commenlye blood, the fystule, the cancre, & STRVMAE, which

are heard impostumes, sumtimes cō∣myng in the necke, and sumtyme vn∣der the armehooles, and sumtyme aboute the preuie partes, and differ from Glandule in matter onlye, for GLANDVLE cōmeth of flegme and STRVMAE of Melancolye.

¶ Haruest season shalbe stayned very much with the peines or grefes of the feete and thighes, palsy, qua∣kynges, ytche, and with imflamati∣on of the eyes.

¶ The Wynter shalbe noyfull, with rotten feuers, falling sickenes defnes, and with diseases of y^e gut∣tes, of DIAPHRAGMA which is a lytle synnowe skynne ioynyng to the maw, and with infirmities of the belly and wyth flegme.